Lighting Orb ... wowzie

Huzurdaddi · #1 April 2nd, 2004, 02:24 AM

So I was playing around at the end of this game and cast wish and got a doom horror. Being a good message board junkie I think equipped it with the required stuff (ring of regen, some MR) and sent it out to go on a killing spree.

Imagine my shock when it runs into a pretender and DIES. I was flabbergasted. How, exactly, could my uber, super, unparalleled killing machine be killed by a pretender? An arch mage pretender no less. I was almost insulted.

So I watched the replay. The battle was over before it was started. The pretender ( stupidly ) buffs himself with some meaningless buff. The horror eats some unit near the pretender, everything is going according to plan I think to myself. Then the pretender ( which is now pretty close to the horror, maybe a range of 8 or so ) launches about 7 or 8 orb lightings, and poof my beautiful horror dies. I was horrified.

I quickly checked my spell listings to see how such a horrible thing could happen. And there it was "Orb lighting number of effects 1+, damage 10 armor negating" hey where is the MR check? EEEEK there isn't one!

Holy bejesus! Note to self: equip horror with lighting resistance ring next time!

rabelais · #2 April 2nd, 2004, 02:46 AM

When in doubt put Elemental Armor on SC's.

(Con4, 10 earth 5 fire)

It's way overpowered, and you avoid a lot of otherwise dire surprises.

Rabe the Elemental Munchkin

Teraswaerto · #3 April 2nd, 2004, 06:23 AM

It's a good thing Doom Horrors don't have a body slot, so no Elemental Armor for them.

velk · #4 April 2nd, 2004, 07:26 AM

Was some bad luck there I think - as I understand it, the blood vengeance means the orb lightning had as much chance of frying the mage casting it as it did of killing the doom horror.

Teraswaerto · #5 April 2nd, 2004, 07:32 AM

Pretenders tend to have high MR, so it would've been lucky if the Blood Vengeance had worked.

[ April 02, 2004, 05:32: Message edited by: Teraswaerto ]

Tuna-Fish · #6 April 2nd, 2004, 10:31 AM

also, if you REALLY want to overpower a D.Horror, empower it one or 2 levels of nature, and make it cast the elemental resistances spell and personal rege. Then equip it with something cool...